New Acquisition in the Library: Challenging National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850

This newly acquired book helps to round out the core collection at Delaney Library by doing exactly as the title describes. Below is a short review provided by student worker Arielle Liakat:

Andres Resendez gives the reader an interesting lens to read and learn about the years leading up to the Mexican-American War in his book, Challenging National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850. Resendez challenges traditional histories of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, which assume frontier residents had clear national loyalties. Rather, Resendez tells the reader that in reality, the U.S.-Mexico borderlands were a changing landscape of identities. Through the examination of complex and overlapping identities, we gain a new knowledge of the borderlands and the events leading to Mexico’s far north becoming a part of the American Southwest.